Dan Fontaine’s literal and observational humor gives audiences a candid look inside the person himself. People everywhere have been engaged by the energy and creativity of Fontaine’s comedy. From mundane observations to ridiculous circumstances of chance, an experience of hilarious entertainment awaits every audience. Fontaine built a reputation as a smart, hardworking and dependable comic while in Atlanta, Georgia where he was a regular at the Funny Farm Comedy Club. Fontaine is now based in New York City and performs throughout the country.
Influences
Everything is an influence. That’s the thing about good comedy, it’s just people talking about their lives and their opinions. The laughter is just an affirmation that we get each other.
Dan Fontaine Comedy's Interests
General
making people laugh, public libraries, being a better person, wikipedia, coffee, oatmeal, red wine, white wine, beer, playing golf on the rare occasion, learning, curiosity, adventures in general...
Music
my Dad, The Beatles, Third Eye Blind, Kagero, Virginia Coalition, John Frusciante, Dirty Three, Nickel Creek, Butch Walker, Elvis Presley, Gomez, John Mayer, Fleet Foxes, Rage, Notorious BIG, Jack Johnson, Guns N Roses, Halestorm, Coldplay, The Four Seasons, Chuck Berry, among others.
Movies
In my opinion, the best acting in film is done by Daniel Day Lewis as "Bill the Butcher" in Gangs of New York.
Also, in my opinion, "The Departed", while a good movie, was not even close to the best film of 2006. In the first 10 minutes there are some obvious editing mistakes that continue throughout the movie. "Little Miss Sunshine" was the best. With that being said...
Shaun of the Dead, O' Brother Where Art Thou, The Burbs, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, Hotel Rwanda, Indiana Jones', The Goonies, Fistfull of Dollars, Waking Life, Little Miss Sunshine, Dances with Wolvers, Unforgiven, Memento, Zodiac, That Thing You Do, Office Space, John Q, Super Troopers, Minority Report, Babel, The Godfather, The Machinist, What the Bleep Do We Know, Gladiator, Love Actually, The New Guy, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Harry Potters', Young Frankenstein, The Perfect Storm, Big, Royal Tenenbaums, Fargo, Deep Impact, Million Dollar Baby, Taxi Driver, The Big Lebowski, Dumb and Dumber, Casino, Transylvania 6500, Back to the Future's, Kill Bill's, Say Anything, Forrest Gump, High Fidelity, Hard Days Night, Saving Silverman
Never really got into Woody Allen's films. If you can explain the greatness to me, please do.
Television
24, Arrested Developement, The Daily Show, Seinfeld, Chappelle's Show. That's it. Don't have a TV, I do the seasons on DVD. Going to watch Prisonbreak at some point, it looks good.
Books
The World's Religions, Lolita, The Artist's Way, Slaughterhouse Five, Thousand Cranes, Dreams From My Father, Siddhartha, DaVinci Code, Tao Te Ching...I need to read more because most of the books I've read end with "for Dummies". Not a joke.
Heroes
My heroes are the people in my life that motivate me to be better tomorrow than I am today. I want to make them proud. There are four of them. Names aren't necessary.
Dan Fontaine Comedy's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
DALEVILLE, AL
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Dan Fontaine Comedy's Schools
Auburn University-Montgomery
Montgomery,Alabama
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Minor: HISTORY
1997 to 2001
Daleville High School
Daleville,Alabama
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to." -W. Somerset Maugham
"Lesson number one in comedy, it’s always shit." - Jerry Seinfeld
"The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well." -Joe Ancis
"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me." -Dave Barry
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -Albert Einstein
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who I'd like to meet: John Lennon, Bill Cosby, Jackie Robinson, Michael J. Fox, Dave Chappelle, Leonardo DaVinci, Tom Morello, Siddhartha Gautama, Ernest Hemingway, Tiger Woods, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Darth Vader, Hunter S. Thompson, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Barack Obama, Influential Comedy Insider Who Thinks I’m Funny, an insurance salesman named Justin Case, and Ben Affleck...I think he’s cool.
Oh, and the inventor of Simon, because it’s just like comedy. As soon you say "this is easy" it really sticks it to ya and makes you second guess everything you just thought.
Things are just friggin swell I tell ya! Moved to Navarre. Loving it! Yeh sho am on FB...hit a beotch up! Hope your having fun! You know Mandy just had a baby in July? Yep. Her name is Ivy Ray. I tell her you said ...what up :) Stay outta trouble...toublehead.
theres a really neat comedy club here called Zaney's that gets some pretty good acts. if you hit the road anytime soon, look into it because i would love to see what youre doing these days!!
Hey funny man!! Things are great! Kickin it old school in Nash Vegas. Ive been going to school and working full time on top of playing shows so things have been pretty crazy. I think i like it that way though =) I start recording this Thursday which is pretty exciting. How are you!?!?!
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Yes! i will be in CU Dec19th-Jan2nd. Im playing at Bentley's on Dec 21st(sunday) at 9pm! Then at Monkey on Tuesday the 30th. You should come by one of those!!
yeah man, just barely!! Nah, i'm doing good. How about yourself? It kinda broke my heart when florida beat Alabama, but i probably subconciously expected it. What's going on with you right now? Doing the club scene?
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